The chair of the Public Safety Committee called off a vote on Andrea Kersten's nomination to be the permanent leader of COPA, after several aldermen voiced strong opposition.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s nomination to have the interim chief of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability become the police watchdog agency’s permanent leader stalled on Friday, amid opposition from aldermen infuriated by a COPAThe City Council Public Safety Committee was set to vote Friday afternoon on Lightfoot’s nomination of interim COPA chief administrator Andrea Kersten for the permanent job, but committee chair Ald.
That recommendation was made last April, months before French was shot and killed in the line of duty, and her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., was critically wounded after they made a traffic stop in Englewood. But the report recommending disciplinary action for French was not made public until three months after her death.
Kersten said COPA was not authorized to redact or amend the report on the Anjanette Young raid after French’s death, and said that full transparency is “vital to public trust.” “This, to me, is about delivering transparency with greater empathy to all police officers, even when it’s an officer who is very much still on the job, and has to move forward after an incident that becomes the subject of headlines,” Kersten said.
Ald. Anthony Napolitano , a former Chicago police officer, said he strongly opposed Kersten’s nomination, because he believes COPA has been overly punitive of police officers under her watch.
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